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Joseph Designer Homes
On a mission to craft homes of extraordinary style, quality, and livability, Patrick Joseph Designer Homes( PJDH) is wholeheartedly committed to its customers. When building custom homes, the company takes into account each homeowner’ s hopes, family dynamics, and lifestyle to create a residence suited to all their needs. Quinn Van-Niekerk, President, shares more about PJDH and how the team is guiding the company into its next era.
“ In 22 years we’ ve built roughly 170 homes, almost all of them within sight of Lake Norman’ s water,” Quinn begins.“ Mike Shalvoy started the company alone, the way most true builders do: one job, one client, one reputation at a time. For the first decade it was just him, a truck, and an unrelenting standard. In 2013 he brought his brother in to help grow the business; together they ran it until his brother stepped away around 2022. Mike kept the helm until he decided, in his seventies, that the company he’ d poured a lifetime into deserved fresh energy.
“ That’ s where I came in. An acquaintance made the introduction, a conversation followed, and by early 2024 I was spending time on job sites and in the office, learning the rhythm of a company that already felt like it had a soul. We closed the sale in March 2025. I brought more than 20 years of commercial and residential construction experience from South Africa, and came here to protect what Mike built, not to change it. I came to widen the lens just enough to let new light in, and to make sure the next 170 homes carry the same quiet authority the first ones did. The core values aren’ t negotiable; they’ re the reason any of this works.”
For Quinn, stewardship means evolving without ever erasing what came before.“ One of my first moves was to reach back and reengage craftsmen and suppliers we hadn’ t
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